I Found It Funny That . . .

. . . ABC showed the front page of the Denver Post during last night's playoff game between the Mavs and Nuggets.

"Here's the front page of the local paper," said (I think) Mike Tirico, before they showed the spread.

It just kills me how often a newspaper is used as a crutch on TV, the radio and in blogs.

We're so irrelevant but it's the one thing that is ALWAYS used to justify or reinforce the importance or magnitude of an event.

 

Funnier still that a Wood Paige Q&A with Pat Bowlen was on the aforementioned front. They did a pretty cool Nuggets-Mavs special section, though.

To the topic, your point is taken. Didn't one of the late-night news shows (Nightline, or some similar) used to do a compilation/collage of front pages for the next day, copped from Newseum?

 

I'm convinced that each morning the local news stations read the Trib and Sun Times to decide what they're going to broadcast that day. Aside from some of the investigative TV news folks, there's no origination of content on the TV news. They just chase the tails of the metro papers.

 

Yeah, not quite the same thing to get a fan holding up I-Phone with main page of local internet-only media entity.

 

Morning Joe does this.

 

Many of the British news shows do it as well, although I realize that's not an apples-to-apples comparison.

 

If it wasn't for USA Today, there'd be a lot of dead air on morning drive time radio.

 

Aaron Brown used to do it on his CNN show with tomorrow's front pages tonight.

 

I interviewed a local disc jockey and sat in on his morning show.

He grabbed every bit of his news report from newspapers or the Web sites of newspapers. No credits. No nothing.

If we go down, we're taking the radio morning news updates down with us.

 

Love me some "Speed Bump":